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Quotes About Incompetence

I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true of most of what's happened in Russia under Putin.
~ Masha Gessen
The Conservatives have been unusually badly led by David Cameron and Theresa May.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Theresa May is singularly unsuited for high office and lacks political talent.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.
~ Richard Reeves
All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
~ Rush Limbaugh
A moment later he was sent sprawling on a hard wood floor. The idiots left him alone – why they thought a simple bash on the head would keep him immobile for long was beyond him. They wouldn't have much of a career if they made mistakes like this. There were times when the incompetence of the enemy was simply an insult.
~ Anne Stuart
I suppose I should just be thankful that since you are so much given to treachery, you're so reassuringly inept at it.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Varyk slid his gaze over to the fire that was blazing in the ornate Victorian hearth. "You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I"d been on the island with Gilligan, he"d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
anyone who identifies him/herself publicly as a "change agent" is self-convicted of incompetence. Changes will certainly occur as a result, but they are not likely to be the changes desired.
~ John Gall
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~ John Maynard Keynes
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
~ Claire Danes
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
~ Oriana Fallaci
What's that Russian saying about incompetent people trying to pass the blame?" Senderovsky laughed. " 'A bad dancer is bothered by his balls.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.
~ George Carlin
You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'
~ Marie Osmond
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
~ Tammy Bruce
I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.
~ John Niven
What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.
~ Joseph Muscat
Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.
~ John Tortorella
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
~ John Dryden